| Weather Center Live | |
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| Format | News program |
| Presented by | Kelly Cass Crystal Egger Paul Goodloe Chris Warren Jim Cantore |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Atlanta |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 3 Hours |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | The Weather Channel |
| Picture format | 480i (SD) 1080i (HD) |
| Original run | March 2, 2009 – present |
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| Preceded by | Weather Center (1998) Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast Evening Edition |
| Related shows | Your Weather Today |
Weather Center Live, previously named Weather Center from its March 2009 relaunch until May 2011, is a weather news program produced by The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Weather Center initially debuted in 1998 and was originally a program devoted to hard weather. Weather Center aired almost 24 hours a day during its first few years. In 2000, with the additions of First Outlook and Your Weather Today, the program became a daytime and evening show only. Weather Center has been shortened regularly since as more shows debuted, and by the end of 2008 it aired only an hour a day during the week.
In February 2009, The Weather Channel's media kit began showing a different logo for the program; the most notable change to come from this, however, was an addition, showing the program's name as "Weather Center with Abrams & Bettes[1]. Changes to electronic program guide systems revealed that Weather Center would absorb the repeating overnight hour on weeknights, and that Weather Center was becoming an evening program (which correlates to the merger of Evening Edition and A&B). The expansion of Weather Center reversed a trend of partitioning that took place between 1998 and 2003. The changes themselves are some of the most far-reaching since the 2003 addition of Day Planner, Afternoon Outlook, and Weekend Outlook, itself a casualty of the changes (being replaced by Weekend View).
From May 5, 2009 through June 12, 2009, Mike Bettes left the studio to report on the VORTEX 2 project, a project in which researchers spent five weeks in tornado alley hunting down tornadoes in an attempt to discover more information about the formation of tornadoes. Throughout the entire duration of the project, Bettes reported live in the field throughout every edition of Abrams & Bettes Weather Center except for a couple of days where the entire project took the day off due to lack of tornadic activity. Several editions of the show featured Bettes and the Vortex2 crew actively chasing potential tornado-producing supercells, and on June 5, 2009, the crew caught its first and only tornado of the year live on PM Edition, the coverage of which spilled over into the beginning of Weather Center; both programs covered the entire tornado event commercial-free. While Bettes was gone in the field, Adam Berg filled his role in the studio.
On June 22, 2009, Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes moved to Your Weather Today. The final edition of Weather Center with Abrams & Bettes was actually a week and a half before this on June 12 to allow Abrams and Bettes to take a week off from studio work prior to moving to mornings. This allowed Alexandra Steele and Jim Cantore to permanently take over their 7 p.m. ET timeslot on June 15, 2009 despite the fact that TV listing services such as Zap2it listed Cantore and Steele as taking over the show on June 22, the same day as Abrams and Bettes began hosting Your Weather Today. Kevin Robinson, a former host of Your Weather Today, began his role as a third host on the show on June 22. On the same day, Nicole Mitchell became Paul Goodloe's permanent co-host on the 10 p.m. ET edition of Weather Center. The 7-10 p.m. ET edition of Weather Center has a different name called Weather Center with Cantore and Steele with Jim Cantore and Alexandra Steele, similar to the morning show on The Weather Channel called Your Weather Today with Abrams & Bettes with co-hosts Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes.
In December 2009, Kevin Robinson left Weather Center with Cantore and Steele, moving to WLWT-TV in Cincinnati; Chris Warren became his replacement. A month later in late January 2010, Cantore had left the program for a month's time to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Chris Warren was Steele's co-host during this time frame.
In late September 2010, Crystal Egger joined Weather Center as a full time co-host.[2] Jim Cantore remains on the show reporting on breaking weather news from the newsroom. In September 2010, Weather Center co-host Alexandra Steele left the network, and later became an on-camera meteorologist for CNN in early 2011. It is confirmed that Crystal Egger has officially taken Alexandra Steele's place in the evenings on Weather Center. In May 2011, Weather Center changed its on-air name and off-air branding to Weather Center Live.
On November 16th, Weather Center Live debuted the Winter Weather Update taking over the Tropical Update, which is usually on at :50 past each June to November. The segment will last probably into May.
All times are eastern time.
Monday through Friday
Saturdays and Sundays
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